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A new, more mobile, Toronto film fest; Movieola to air winning shorts

TORONTO – One wonders how festival goers will gather to see these particular films – or if they have to gather at all.Mobifest, which is billing itself as Canada's first and only mobile film festival, is seeking submissions, or as the press release put it, the festival is "on the hunt to find the Spielberg of the small screen." And they mean screens smaller than TVs. Sponsored by Palm Canada, MobiFest aims to bring fame and notoriety to the emergent art of mobile or "pocket" films. The international competition is open to all filmmakers over the age of 16. The...